Kamal Mansour

Typographer, Monotype

Over the past 20 years Kamal has worked on the typography of many of the world's languages. He has been heavily involved in the Google Noto Font project which aims to create a universal typeface and has served as the architect and reviewer of the advanced typographic features for many of the supported scripts.

Debbie Millman

Founder + Host, Design Matters

Debbie was named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA. She is also an author, educator, curator and host of the podcast Design Matters - one of the world’s first and longest running podcasts.

Keith Frankel

Host, CreativeMornings Boston

Keith is a startup exec, community builder, and award-winning speaker based in Boston. He was formerly the Creative Director at HubSpot (IPO) and Producer at MTV, and now is the host of CreativeMornings Boston and the Chief Product Officer at the bootstrapped but profitable ed-tech startup Firecracker. He is also the founder and CEO of Parlay.ai.

Jing Jian

Experience Design Lead, Airbnb

Jing is currently a design lead for Airbnb's innovation and rapid prototyping studio. Before that, she helped build the Airbnb Experiences product—designing how travelers could discover authentic travel experiences. She's originally from Kansas City, and spent most of her time before Airbnb as a graphic designer helping brands tell stories.

Hannah Pileggi

Experience Research Lead, Airbnb

Hannah is currently the Experience Research Lead at Airbnb, using qualitative and quantitative methods to improve the Airbnb trips experience. Previously, she has worked at Facebook as a User Experience Researcher, researching photo sharing, for the Friend Sharing Product team, Instagram, and the Photos team.

Briana Hokanson

Experience Designer, Adobe

Briana Hokanson is an Experience Designer working on Lightroom and other photography tools at Adobe. With a multi-disciplinary background in fine arts, design and technology she has worked with clients such as National Geographic, Shinola, & Boston Scientific. In her spare time she works on online community-based passion projects (Dressed.so, 100sUnder100, etc.) and volunteers with Fotokids, a non-profit photography organization in Guatemala.

Phil Getzen

Product Manager, Twitter

Phil is currently a Product Manager at Twitter Boston where he leads the Media Consumption team, building the foundational video technology used at Twitter. He is also a cofounder of Gique, a Boston-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization which exists to engage students in creative, hands-on curricula, experiments and activities that develop their passion and potential to succeed in science, technology, engineering, art + design, and math (STEAM).

Amanda Pinsker

Product Designer, Github

Amanda is currently a Product Designer at GitHub in San Francisco. She has previously served as Design Director of Scout, completed an apprenticeship at Upstatement, and worked as a design co-op at Ronik Design. She spends most of her time pretending to know how git works.

Adrian Phillips

Design Manager, Lyft

Based in New York City, Adrian is a Design Manager at Lyft. Previously, an Experience Design Lead on the Risk team at Airbnb, he worked to prevent bad behavior both on the product and out in the real world. Before the whole design thing, Adrian was a singer in what could be best described as an operatic boy band and will happily take musical theatre song requests.

Dan Zedek

Media Innovation Program Professor, Northeastern University

Dan Zedek teaches in the journalism department’s graduate Media Innovation program and the Information Design & Visualization MFA program as well as running a studio practice specializing in design and content strategy. Zedek was Design Director of the Boston Globe for 19 years leading the award-winning design and infographics teams in print and online. He’s been a member of The Best American Infographics “brain trust” since its inception.

Chelsea Atwell

Former Design Lead, Hillary for America

Chelsea is a Partner, Associate Creative Director and Brand Strategist at Zero Studios in New York City. Previously, she led design for digital advertising and video, on the digital team at Hillary for America in Brooklyn, New York; the campaign to help elect Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States. She is currently a part-time faculty member at Parsons School of Design.

Danielle Olson

PhD Student, Electrical Engineering + Computer Science at MIT

Danielle Olson works as a Research Assistant in the Imagination, Computation, and Expressions (ICE) Lab within the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where they research and develop computing systems for creative expression, cultural analysis, and social change. She also works as a Virtual Reality (VR) Developer & Research Consultant for Mediate VR, an MIT Sandbox-funded startup.

Hajj Flemings

Founder of Rebrand Cities + Brand Camp University

Hajj is founder of Brand Camp University, an educational platform that is preparing people for the future of work. In 2017 he launched Rebrand Cities a global civic design partnership with WordPress with the audacious goal to get 10,000 businesses online and eradicate the digital divide.

Laura Marelic

Founder + Original CEO of Scout

Laura founded Scout during her time at Northeastern. After graduating in 2015, she co-founded an app called Cookin and, most recently, Loco Studio, a design, development, and branding agency. Prior to that, she worked on HubSpot’s product marketing team and was named one of BetaBoston’s Most Innovative 25 under 25.

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